If you've been watching the latest Phase
Two Marvel movies closely, you'll notice a character has been
losing an arm — or hand — in each film, too.

Phase Two refers to the
second of the three phases of Marvel's
Cinematic Universe. Phase Two kicked off in 2013
with "Iron Man 3" and it will end with this summer's
"Ant-Man."

President of Marvel Studios
Kevin Feige, a self-proclaimed "Star Wars" fan, confirmed the
gag is a homage to
a galaxy far, far away during the recent press tour for
"Avengers: Age of Ultron." But it didn't start that way.

"So I’m obsessed with 'Star Wars' - and it didn’t start out
as intentional, but it became intentional," Feige
told Cinemablend. "It sort of happens in every
'Star Wars' movie, but I was sort of looking at
it, ‘Okay, is Phase Two our 'Empire
Strikes Back'?’ Not really, but tonally things are a
little different. Somebody gets their arm cut off in every Phase
Two movie. Every single one."

With two more films to go in Phase Two — "Avengers: Age of
Ultron" and "Ant-Man" — Feige gave away a bit of a
spoiler. Since
we've seen "Age of Ultron," we can confirm it definitely
happens in that film.

Here are all the severed arms
as they appear in the Marvel Universe so far: